On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:41:58AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Lintian currently reports many issues as Error or Warning without > referring to specific Policy items. As far as I can tell, the severity > level for any given Lintian tag seemingly is completely arbitrary, > based on the personal preferences of whoever made the commit for any > specific tag. No, I dont think those levels are completly arbitrary. > IMHO, During the Forky cycle, an extensive review of Lintian's > severity levels for every tag ought to be performed, starting with > those for which a bug report against Lintian has been filed. yes, with 516 open bug reports lintian maintenance surely needs help. I'm not convinced a completly arbitrary rant on this list is the best way to start with that, but YMMV. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ I have a joke about trickle down economics. 99% of you won’t ever get it.
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